The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-02

slant and easy mastery over her audience is
gained almost entirely by the breezy air of health
she carries with her.
1t is the same with Carrie Turner. She is 10
beauty, but she is SO beautifully healthy that
not one person in ten who sees her calls her face
to severe account. Mrs George Gould, before
she became the mother of the only baby whose
long clothes were ever photographed for daily
newspaper illustration. was, Miss Kingdom,
a vigorous girl we'll cared for by good mother.
extremely fond of the open air and beaming
with the roses of exercise
Fanny Davenports strength is marvel. Her
father was man of fine physical proportions,
and have Fanny myself. Lady Gay
SPEAKER, catch her Dolly in rapturous embrace
and swing him three times round her. his feet
performing dizzy circle in the air but never
touching the floor. Fanny doesn't do that now.
The antics that woman went through a couple of
years ago. wheE she trying to get rid OF ner
superabundant fesh would have killed an ordi-
nary woman, but produced little effect on
her. Mary Anderson is woman whom nearly
all the men of my acquaintance have been hope
lessly In love with at one time another, and,
strangely enough. ali women like her, too. Her
charm of manner depends on her good blue grass
constitution. aud am not sure that she does not
owe more of her freedom from and worry
to good health than to religion, though the lat
ter gets ali the credit with her. The Bernhardt
used to have the agility and strength of cat.
Patti is robust woman The queens of opera
and tragedy are women of majestic physique.
Frau Materna is imposing to look on. Lii Leh-
man is woman of magnificent health.
Janauschek is an old woman, but vigorous
one Modieska is as charming as when she was
younger. have seen poor Selma Doaro, when
she must have been past forty, carry whole
theatre full OF people into raptures by the vigor
and physical perfection of Spanish shawl
dance. Annie Robe is so sound of health that her
skin keeps fresh enough to call for no make up
after years on the stage She has never even
tried dash of powder Annie Pixley is we'll
woman, with skin soft babys. Rosina
Vokes something of an invalid last year. but
years ago. when the Vokeses all together.
it was the bloom and flush of health in the faces
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long legs and Fawdon Vokes' funny short ones,
that made them popular. Rosina is very fond of
horses. and she never paints. She has fine
constitution to back her.
One hears much of Ellen TerryS invalidism.
but she is better than she looks. She has never
taken care of her skin and the result is misead-
ing. She rubs on dense coat of chalk for the
stage. takes no pains to get it off, and her face
is shrlveed and dead looking under the sun
light next morning. It is her own fault, and
she has plenty of life otherwise. Miss Eastlake
does herself injustice in the same way. She is
as we'll as a woman could be, but sometimes
looks delicate because she has been careless
with cosmetics and hurt her com plexon. Grace
Hawthorne has made her success in London by
the nuoyant optimism that belongs to a good
digestion. The whole army of soubrettes, who
pattern after Lolita and Maggie Mitchell, trade
their strength and freedom from bodily
ills. They conquer popularity by force
of turbulent health. Invalids the stage are
rare birds. Emma Abbott faunts her exhuberant
life in your face. Kate Claxton would be dead
before now if she were not physically sound to
remarkable degree. / knew a boy who made
plentiful meal of choke cherries and milk be-
cause ne had heard the com blnation warranted
to produce stomachic disorder and keep lad
home from school. In the same way sore throats
are conveniences to singers, and Helen Dau-
vray recent nervous Lrostraton disappeared
with marvellous suddenness the day after she
disbanded her company and freed herself from
the necessity of flinging good money after bad.
There has been any nonsense about
fashionable pallor on the stage Stage beauties,
In spite of late hours. the veXation and fatieues
of travelling, the strain of the work, exposure to
drauehts. ETC., are strong women, and
off the stage finding out that by cultivating
health they too cultivate in equal proportion
good looks and charm.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.